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Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Painting

James Madison

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Description: Portrait engraving of James Madison seated, from a painting by Chappel.
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Senate Bribery Investigating Committee

Date: 02 12 1931
Description: Seated L to R: Senator Herman J. Severson, Senator Walter S. Goodland, chairman of the committee, and Oliver Knutson, clerk of the committee. Standing is E...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate

Date: 1899
Description: The only known visual documentation of the Senate Chamber in the third Wisconsin Capitol. It was probably more colorful than it appears here. In 1869 a rep...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Chamber

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: Elevated view of legislators in the Assembly Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: Detail of the 1899 Assembly Chamber photograph, showing a row of legislators at their desks. Until well into the 20th century, individual legislators had n...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate Detail

Date: 1899
Description: Detail of several senators. The Senate was less crowded than the Assembly because of its small numbers, allowing a better glimpse of the floral carpet and ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate Detail

Date: 1899
Description: Detail of the 1899 Senate photograph, showing details such as the president's chair (much more ornamented than the Assembly Speaker's chair) and desk with ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assemblyman

Date: 1909
Description: Otto Onstad, a newly elected assemblyman from Dane County, in the newly constructed Assembly Chamber of the present Wisconsin State Capitol. He is sitting ...
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Proxmire and President Carter

Date: 01 18 1978
Description: Senator William Proxmire meeting with President Jimmy Carter in the White House.
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Proxmire and President Lyndon Baines Johnson

Date: 09 01 1967
Description: Senator William Proxmire meeting with President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), in the Oval Office at the White House. The third person in the photograph, wh...
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Kohler Signing GI Housing Loan Bill

Date: 03 01 1951
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. signs a bill that would liberalize state housing loans to veterans. The legislators grouped around him in the Governor's off...
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Legislator Using Computer

Date: 03 18 2000
Description: Legislator working on a computer.
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Carter and Nelson

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Description: President Jimmy Carter and Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in the White House Oval Office.
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Menominee Tribal Restoration

Date: 04 22 1975
Description: Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton signing the documents that restored tribal status to the Menominee Indians. Watching the ceremony are Senator Gaylo...
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Ruth Doyle and Sylvia Raihle

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Ruth Doyle, left, Dane County District 1, and Sylvia Raihle, right, Chippewa Falls, members of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Representative Sylvia H. Raihle

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Portrait of Representative Sylvia H. Raihle, Republican, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, at her desk in the Assembly Chambers.
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Representative Ruth Doyle

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Ruth B. Doyle, Representative, Democrat, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Governor Rennebohm Signing Anti-Segregation Law

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated at his desk in the foreground, signs a bill into law ending segregation in the Wisconsin National Guard because of race, c...
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Wisconsin Legislative Council

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: The new legislative council for the 1949 legislative session. Front row, left to right, are: Assemblyman Alex Nicol (R-Sparta), Senator Jess Miller (R-Rich...

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